A search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at √ s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 . Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114–176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100–468 GeV are excluded

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2015). Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015(9) [10.1007/JHEP09(2015)108].

Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

F. Ceradini;B. Di Micco;R. Di Nardo;D. Orestano;F. Petrucci;D. Puddu;G. Salamanna;M. Sessa;C. Taccini;M. Trovatelli;
2015-01-01

Abstract

A search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at √ s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 . Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114–176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100–468 GeV are excluded
2015
Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., et al. (2015). Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2015(9) [10.1007/JHEP09(2015)108].
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